These are great tips.
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Augustus Augustus wrote:
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> Tips for Handling Telemarketers *
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> Three Little Words That Work !!
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> (1)The three little words are: *'Hold On, Please...' *
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> Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of
> hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more
> time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.
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> Then when you eventually hear the phone company's 'beep-beep-beep' tone,
> you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has
> efficiently completed its task.
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> These three little words *will help* eliminate telephone soliciting.*
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> (2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other
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> This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and
> records the time of day when a person answers the phone.
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> This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a 'real' sales
> person to call back and get someone at home.
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> What you can do after answering, if you notice there is no one there, is to
> immediately start hitting your *# button on the phone, 6 or 7 times, as
> quickly as possible* This confuses the machine that dialed the call and it
> kicks your number out of their system. Gosh, what a shame not to have your
> name in their system any longer !!! *
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> (3) Junk Mail Help:*
> When you get 'ads' enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these
> 'ads' with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk mail
> away.
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> When you get those 'pre-approved' letters in the mail for everything from
> credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the
> return envelope.
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> Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right? It costs them
> more than the regular 41 cents postage 'IF' and when they receive them
> back..
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> It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was around 50
> cents before the last increase and it is according to the weight. In that
> case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these
> cool little, postage-paid return envelopes. *
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> One of Andy Rooney's (60 minutes) ideas. *
> Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send a pizza
> coupon to Citibank. If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send
> them their blank application back!
> If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything
> you send them.
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> You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them
> guessing! It still costs them 41 cents.
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> The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their
> own junk back in the mail, but folks, we need to OVERWHELM them. Let's let
> them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they're
> paying for it...Twice!
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> Let's help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail
> is cutting into their business profits, and that's why they need to increase
> postage costs again You get the idea !
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> If enough people follow these tips, it will work I have been doing
> this for years, and I get very little junk mail anymore. *
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> THIS JUST MIGHT BE ONE E-MAIL THAT YOU WILL WANT TO FORWARD TO YOUR FRIENDS
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